Fall Out Boy Cribbed From 99 Percent Of Local Bands

The Daily News‘ Dan Gross reports today on the band the kids tell me is hip and popular today, Fall Out Boy. Apparently, local artist Nicholas Hans is thinking of suing the band for stealing his idea.

This is the second alleged Fall Out Boy-related thievery in weeks, as Gross reported earlier this month the band had reached an out-of-court settlement with Wesley Eisold, who the band lists as co-writing several songs on Infinity on High. The band apparently took lyrics from songs written by Eisold and performed by his old band, American Nightmare, on its previous album.

And what did they allegedly crib from Hans? Well, in 2001 Hans’ band Knives Out toured and sold a shirt with a drawing of a wrist with a ribbon on it that says “Do not open until Christmas.” The lyric “The ribbon on my wrist says, ‘Do not open before Christmas,’” is on a 2005 Fall Out Boy album.

Hans says the band “100 percent ripped us off.” Nicholas Hans is also planning action against Radiohead, for its song “Knives Out” on 2001’s Amnesiac, NBC for unauthorized use of the characters Hans and Franz and Santa Claus for stealing that whole “St. Nicolas” thing.

Dan Gross | Fall Out Boy is in his sights [Daily News]